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Safety Net — 89 episodes
Getting Control of AI in Healthcare
Safe Births are a Team Effort
Taking the Mystery Out of Being a Clinician Defendant
Defending Providers is Different Today, Says Legal Expert After 45 Years
How Application Forms and Burnout Threaten MD Mental Health and Patient Safety
$1.5 Billion in Miscommunication: Medmal Data Report Finds Opportunities
Case Dismissed! Every Medical Defendant’s Dream Still Holds Some Nightmares
Expert: Communication Is Top Fix for Prostate Care Allegations
How Depositions Make or Break a Medmal Defense
New Medmal Report: Documentation Matters a Lot
Paying for Patient Safety: Solving an ROI Puzzle
Teleradiology Leads Virtual Care Risk in New Study
New Study Finds Outpatient Adverse Events Common, Often Preventable
Taking the Pulse of a Clinician’s Interpersonal Skills
Bringing AI Into Medicine and Keeping It Safe
A Net to Catch Patients at Risk of Falling Through the Cracks
Alert on Surgical Items Left Behind in Patients
Higher Malpractice Risk with Advanced Practice Providers? Data Say Not Really
When a Doctor is Sued: Former Defendant Finds Her Voice
Boarding Critical Care Patients in EDs: New Guidance from Patient Safety Experts
An Alert on Cyber Risk for Health Providers: No One is Safe
Medical Error’s Stubborn Threat to Hospital Patients
When the Patient’s Home is the Hospital
Copy and Paste in the Medical Record: A Top EHR Danger
Getting SMART About Harassment
New Guidance on Preventing Lost Medical Specimens
Making Sure Patients Don’t Catch Fire During Surgery
Simulation’s Evolving Place in Health Care
When Virtual Isn’t Good Enough, And Patients Refuse to Come In
Nurses Accountable in Diagnosis-relatedMalpractice Claims
Fighting Discrimination in the Health Profession at Harvard
Malpractice Data Tell a Story… So Do the People Who Use Them
Hospitalists Face Worsening Malpractice Climate
Harvard Hospitals Turn to Trusted Friend to Find Vulnerabilities
Back To Court after COVID-19: Uncertainty and a Back Seat for Malpractice Cases
New Age of 45 for General Colorectal CA Screening
Newborn Body Cooling Safety and Efficacy Moves Forward
Lowering the Risk of Moving Patients to a Different Hospital
Cures Act Opens Clinical Notes to Patients
Help For Optimizing Care and Preventing Risk With Virtual Visits
Hospital Fights to Head off Care Disparities During Pandemic
The Earlier the Better: More MedMal Insurers Offer Real-Time Support After Patient Harm
Clinicians are Far from Alone During a Lawsuit
The Pain and Reward of Delivering Palliative Care During COVID
Word to the Wise: Misuse of Language in Clinical Communication Causes Harm
COVID-19 Threatens Primary Care
Is This Case Likely to Close with a Payment?
Malpractice Defendants Cool Their Heels During COVID-19
Telemedicine in the COVID-19 Era
Health Providers: “What We’re Going Through Now is Not Normal”
New MA Law Gives Health Providers Less to Worry About During COVID-19
Harvard MedMal Program Responds to COVID-19: No-Cost Added Coverage, Faster Application
A Movement and Its Future After 20 Years: Patient Safety Leader Retires, Looks Ahead
Are You My Doctor? Cards Help Patients
Clinician Burnout: EHR Should Help, Not Hurt
Harvard Researcher: Hospitals Can Do Better Diagnosing Deadly Sepsis
Aging Surgeons a Patient Safety Concern for Hospitals
What’s Up with Cardiac Malpractice Cases?
Cracking the Code for Better Rapport Among Generations
Primary Care Docs Try to Up Their Diagnosis Game
Part III: Harvard Joins IHI to Cut Referral Mistakes
Patient Safety Becoming a Family Affair
Part II: Harvard Joins IHI to Cut Referral Mistakes
Removing Pebbles: Joy as a Cure for Clinician Burnout
Catching Transitioning Patients Before They Fall (through the cracks)
Getting Boards on Board with Patient Safety
Cooling Brain-injured Babies to Reduce Disability, Liability
Doctors and the Law: A Judge Offers a Peek Behind the Gavel
Understanding “Standard of Care”: A Doctor and a Lawyer Share from the Medmal Front Lines
Called to be Juror in Medmal Case? Lawyers Want to Talk to You
Team Care, Alert Fatigue Near Top of EMR Agenda: Dr. David Bates
Can Access to Doctor Notes Help Patients Find Mistakes, Recall Care Plans?
Harvard Hospitals Receive $2 Million for Patient Safety Projects
What a High Leapfrog Safety Score Means to Hospitals
How Do Diagnosis Errors Happen? New National Report Sheds Light
Physician Health Services: Social Media Ills Added to Substance Abuse for Intervention Needs
Money for Safety: CRICO Pushes Hard to Prevent Medical Harm
Q & A: Does Following a Clinical Guideline Help Later in Court?
Burnout Stalks Clinicians, Relief Explored
Bold and Wrong: Doctors Often Too Confident with Diagnoses
Trying M&Ms for Outpatient Care
Accuracy at Issue in MA Disclosure Law
Residents Just as Liable as Attendings
Happy? MDs Rate Selves, Share Secrets
Lucian Leape Grades the Patient Safety Movement (Part 2)
Lucian Leape Grades the Patient Safety Movement (Part 1)
Patient Status Changes “Trigger” Call to MD
Adding Structure for Safer Handoffs
Surgeons and Error Disclosure